Energy Efficient

It sounds easy doesn’t it? Sit down and repeat five words. Yet, our simplest task is undoubtedly our greatest challenge and, unlike many of the scientific paradoxes or conundrums, the reason is obvious – we are addicted to thinking. So when we come to meditate, we might start off focused on the words, but before we’ve realized it, our thoughts have led us completely astray. It’s because we spend virtually every moment allowing our attention to scatter through the nine doors of the human body that we remain preoccupied by the minutiae of the physical plane when we meditate.

We do, however, have the power to reverse this outward fixation. By focusing every iota of our attention at the eye centre, we are assured of channelling our consciousness upwards, contacting the astral form of the Master and entering the higher spiritual planes. Yet raising one’s consciousness requires tremendous energy.

To attain this goal, we must conserve as much energy as possible, using no more than is necessary to meet our obligations on the physical plane. In the same way that a car cannot be driven if instead of pouring petrol into the petrol tank we pour it on the roadside, we cannot withdraw our consciousness to the eye centre if our attention is scattered. But if our attention is directed towards simran throughout the day, this will minimize the downward flow of the soul currents. Maharaj Sawan Singh put it like this:

When the water of a reservoir that has been leaking through a large number of holes and pipes is made to pass through one pipe by shutting all other apertures, what great force and velocity it acquires. In the same manner, our soul current passing out through the eyes, ears, nose and other apertures has become attached to … objects of the material world – animate and inanimate. When all this love is concentrated singly on the Master, you can hardly imagine what power and energy it generates and what wonders it performs.
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